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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1955
Page
1
Lovington city officials approve creating a city engineer and street superintendent post and outline Oil Appreciation Month plans. Attorney Ward accuses two police officers of lying about a DWI arrest of his partner, while measures cut library and youth center pledges due to cigarette tax revenue changes.
Countywide damage totals rise with Lovington cotton fields hit and Artesia river floodwaters easing. Crews clear channels north of Hobbs while roads remain closed in Artesia Lovington Plains areas. Harvest pushed back up to ten days amid ongoing downpours and forecasts of more rain.
City Commissioner Charlie Campbell alerted the sheriff about a man beating his wife. Officer Bartley found a party of 28 in progress. Hobbs police arrested two intoxicated men, J. H. Dever 34 of Belvedere Apartments and Francis Keith Cox 37 of Manteo Illinois, on Tuesday night.
Mrs. E. R. Granbury of Modern Cleaners on the Artesia Highway reported a group she believed to be Mexicans casing the shop. Police went to the scene but found no one present.
Ollie Thomas Revis 34 of 1711 S Cochran Hobbs was fined 100 dollars and had his driving license suspended for one year by Judge Robert Bensing. Revis was arrested after driving through a red light at Fowler and Broadway in Hobbs.
President Eisenhower’s doctors say he is well on the road to recovery from the September 24 heart attack. Denver bulletins report he is cheerful, resting easily, with normal vital signs as the two weeks after the attack loom. He may soon be moved to see movies in Fitzsimons Hospital as he regains strength.
Clarence L Thomas 19 113 Mobile Street Levelland Texas escaped injury when his 1955 Mercury hit a parked 1946 Ford wrecker from Woodward Garage on the Tatum Highway six miles out. Donald Cullen 20 of Loving ton flagging cars was directing traffic. Cullen was not hurt. Wrecker damage listed at 400 dollars. Mercury total loss.
Lovington FFA member Benny Benge earned 84 dollars for a 105 pound lamb at the New Mexico State Fair.
Tears filled the courtroom as District Judge John R. Brand ordered 10 month old Travis Williams returned to his mother Carolyn Wilson. A habeas corpus writ was issued after Wilson, joined by her husband and her father, sought her child's return from hosts Lee and wife of Lovington who had kept the infant since July after a separation. Wilson had intended only temporary care for the baby. The Scotts claimed they believed the arrangement lasted six months.
The Air Force identified two Tucson men among those killed in a B-47 bomber crash near Tatum on Monday. Aircraft commander Captain Virgil P. Swim, 31, and observer Captain Raymond S. Lichtenhan, 35, died. Third crewman Lieutenant William Daniel Berggen survived with third degree burns and was hospitalized in Hobbs. Colonel Everett W. Best of Roswell leads investigators into a possible aerial collision.
Attorney Ward calls for the immediate discharge of Officers Looney and Lyles in Lovington New Mexico accusing them of lying and improper conduct after a dispute over Carrell's arrest and trial. He cites multiple witnesses and questions the officers actions at the restaurant and during booking. Ward says evidence supports Carrell was not drunk and urges city officials to act.
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